How To Install Spruce Clapboard Siding

Put a level starter strip around the house at the bottom of the wall as a starting point for clapboard and to mark the bottom for the corner boards.

How to install spruce clapboard siding.

If more than one clapboard is needed to span a wall snap a chalk line between the marks on the corner boards on top of the course being overlapped. Take care not to nail through the overlap of two pieces. Nail the clapboard to the studs. Installing wood siding is not an overly difficult process but there are some keys to a successful project.

Seeing that fence post today standing plumb and solid makes me feel glad that all the steps i did were well worth it. Carefully slide the notched piece of siding into place. By carter silva on february 6 2015. Co written by emanuel silva.

Use a strip the same thickness as the top of. Join the clapboards with scarf joints as in step 3. How to install wood lap clapboard or beveled siding part 1. Natural wood siding lap clapboard or beveled is still a common exterior finish.

Install clapboards by face nailing them to the house studs with 1 1 4 in. Work has begun on the exterior finish. In my last article i wrote about installing a fence post. Keep nails in 1 from edges.

Although it was dirty and hard work i enjoyed every minute of it. Penetration into solid wood using one ring shank nail per stud spaced at a maximum of 24 in.